Published by Ffotogallery in 2013, sales information for my self-portrait book, Falling Into Place, can be found on my publisher's website, Ffotogallery.org and onAmazon.com. It is also being sold at Printed Matter in NYC and through photo-eye bookstore in Santa Fe, NM. Falling Into Place is in the library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Falling into Place

Detroit-based artist Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis in 1988. Twenty years later she turned her camera on herself and began taking self-portraits with the intention of showing from the inside the day-to-day life of a person with a disability.

The photographs chronicle the struggles and achievements of the artist as she learns to accept the limitations of her body and celebrate her abilities rather than her disability. Taken together, the images build a compelling narrative about the artist’s daily life over five years that is inspiring, deeply moving and offers a fascinating insider perspective. The story highlights Lay-Dorsey’s energetic lifestyle, and unconventionally for a woman of her age, a love of Detroit electronic dance music which led its aficionados to bestow on her the nickname ‘Grandma Techno’.

Published in 2013 by Ffotogallery in Cardiff, Wales, and designed by Victoria Forrest, the 200x240mm hardback publication includes 50 colour images, an artist statement and biography, and texts by David Alan Harvey, Magnum photographer and Burn Magazine Editor, and David Drake, Director of Ffotogallery and Cardiff's Diffusion Festival of Photography.